best quotations about
Discovery |
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Quotations
 | The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!”, but “That's funny …” — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 19 likes |
| The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 11 likes |
 | The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 9 likes |
 | The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 6 likes |
 | Man cannot discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore. — André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947 5 likes |
| We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 5 likes |
 | Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem. — Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer 4 likes |
 | If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. — Nikola Tesla, 1856-1943, Serbian-American inventor 4 likes |
 | I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 3 likes |
 | In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid. — Dave Barry, 1947-, American journalist 3 likes |
 | The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. — John Keats, 1795-1821, English poet 3 likes |
 | Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 3 likes |
 | The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 3 likes |
 | A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 3 likes |
| The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 3 likes |
| The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex. — Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer 3 likes |
 | We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
 | I do not seek. I just find. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
 | We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist? — Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969 2 likes |
 | The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 2 likes |
 | Find first, seek later. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 2 likes |
 | If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes |
 | One must look for one thing only, to find many. |
 | Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little: it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. |
 | Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. |
 | Science finds cures more easily than answers. |
 | He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn’t one. |
 | When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else. |
 | The unique innovation of the phonetic alphabet released the Greeks from the universal acoustic spill of tribal societies. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
| The Greeks invented both their artistic and scientific novelties after the interiorization of the alphabet. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | I love trying things and discovering how I hate them. |
 | I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself. |
| The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself. |
| Searching means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. |
 | Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment: the moment when a man knows forever more who he is. |
| The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it. |
| The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. |
| The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards. |
 | Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. |
 | To be a writer is not to preach a truth, it is to discover a truth. |
 | One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance. |
 | A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. |
Personal Stories
| I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Eureka! (I found! I found!) Εύρηκα! Εύρηκα! — Archimedes, 287-212 BC, Ancient Greek mathematician & inventor (running naked from his bath after dicovering the 'Archimedes principle') 4 likes |
